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MrBubblez98

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So starting very recently whenever I would start up my computer, it would take a while until it's fully functional and I can actually use it. Everything loads up fine, but if I try move the mouse it lags behind a LOT. And the other day when I opened up BF4 long after my PC started up, I was getting about 10 FPS for several minutes (Paracel Storm map) before I could actually play. (BF4 is on a separate SSD)

Would this be my boot and / or game SSD failing? Or a GPU / CPU / RAM issue? Here's specs:

FX8350 @ 4GHz
Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3
8GB 1600MHz RAM
R9 280
Kingston V300 120GB SSD (~3 years old)
Mushkin 240GB SSD for BF4 (3 years old)

If you need any more info, please let me know. Any help / input on this is greatly appreciated!

Thanks,


Michael
 
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herrwizo
Hard to say, but from your symptoms it is most likely that Kingston V300 is either failing or losing performance (it has very bad reputation among SSDs in general).

Things you can try first:

1) free some space on system drive. When SSDs get full, or near-full, they start losing performance. Drastically. Leave at least 20GB free and see if it helps.
2) Scan for errors or bad sectors
3) Perform TRIM on your drive (if you are using Windows 8 or above, windows defragmenter will actually perform TRIM instead of regular defragmentation, since they know it is an SSD). You can also use software tool which came with your SSD - but some manufacturers don't provide it.

If nothing helps, you can try with a fresh install of Windows on a...
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Hard to say, but from your symptoms it is most likely that Kingston V300 is either failing or losing performance (it has very bad reputation among SSDs in general).

Things you can try first:

1) free some space on system drive. When SSDs get full, or near-full, they start losing performance. Drastically. Leave at least 20GB free and see if it helps.
2) Scan for errors or bad sectors
3) Perform TRIM on your drive (if you are using Windows 8 or above, windows defragmenter will actually perform TRIM instead of regular defragmentation, since they know it is an SSD). You can also use software tool which came with your SSD - but some manufacturers don't provide it.

If nothing helps, you can try with a fresh install of Windows on a different system drive. Even a mechanical one would do, but it needs to be in good condition and without any bad sectors. This could easily clear up the things.
 
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Spot on!
OP, make sure your SSD is not getting full. 10% should always be left free. And i do mean always to the point where it's advisable to leave 10% of it unpartitioned(this is called over-provisioning).
 
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Okay, thanks a lot. I do believe my boot drive is getting full, as well as the drive that BF4 is on, so I'll try uninstalling things I don't need. If anything changes I'll be sure to let you know.

If nothing changes even after there's quite a bit of storage head-room, would that probably mean my drive(s) are failing?

Thanks!

**EDIT** I did what you said, and BF4 runs like a charm now. I had like 8 or 10GB left on the drive, so I uninstalled a game and it works just fine.

Thanks!
 
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